Grandpa Durov's Little Corner, Grandpa Durov's Wonderland, the Durov Animal Theatre... These names are well familiar not only to inhabitants of Moscow and other Russia's cities, but also to many guests from other countries. And, indeed, this is an unusual place, unique in the whole world. There, Man and Nature live in harmony. There, the true story...

The Old Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard (the Circus, for short) is one of the oldest circuses in Russia. Over a hundred years ago, in 1880, a company of merchant Danilov built this building for a circus of Albert Salamonsky. People say that Salamonsky enframed the first rouble gained for tickets and hung it in the box office. On the 20th of Oct...

On 5th November 1909, the Russkiye Vedomosti newspaper published an announcement: "In the next couple of days, the Khudozhestvenny Electrotheatre will be opened, in a specially constructed building in Arbatskaya Square. Its auditorium seats 400 people and the lobby has a luminous fountain."
On 11th November 1909, the first show took place in the...